South Korea’s former health minister was convicted on Thursday of pressuring the country’s pension fund to support a controversial Samsung merger, in one of the first rulings on key players in the corruption scandals that ensnared the country’s ousted president and Samsung’s heir.
Here are your Thursday morning headlines.
Qatar is not ready to change its foreign policy to resolve a dispute with fellow Gulf Arab states and will never compromise, Qatar’s foreign minister said on Thursday.
Fishermen joined navy and air force personnel Thursday in recovering bodies and aircraft parts from the sea off Myanmar, where a military plane carrying 122 people including 15 children crashed a day earlier.
Polling stations across Britain opened for national elections amid heightened security Thursday as one senior police official said the country was living through “unprecedented times” following a series of terror attacks in recent weeks.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA chose 12 new astronauts Wednesday from its biggest pool of applicants ever, hand-picking seven men and five women who could one day fly aboard the nation’s next generation of spacecraft.
North Korea fired several suspected short-range anti-ship missiles Thursday, South Korea’s military said, in a continuation of defiant launches as it seeks to build a nuclear missile capable of reaching the continental United States.
BOSTON — It was a simple act of kindness by a complete stranger, but it left a lasting impression on a young Polish boy escaping the horrors of Nazi death camps.
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced racketeering charges against more than two dozen reputed Russian mobsters and associates, including Razhden Shulaya, the alleged leader of a Soviet mafia syndicate who is accused of running gambling, stolen goods and protection rackets in several states across the country.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Wednesday ordered state agencies to take steps to combat wrong-way crashes on Phoenix-area freeways after two drivers were killed and a third injured in a wreck Tuesday night.
A pot farm’s neighbor can sue them for smells and other nuisances that could harm their property values, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
During a one-on-one Valentine’s Day conversation in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump asked former FBI chief James Comey to let go of an investigation into former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn, whom Trump had just fired, Comey said in a statement released Wednesday.
The siblings of a 39-year-old banker say their brother was one of the eight people killed in the London attacks.
A Florida woman has pleaded guilty to threatening a man whose 6-year-old son was killed in the 2012 mass shooting at a Connecticut school, which she believed was a hoax.
Green Heinz ketchup? Fat-free Pringles? Colgate frozen lasagna? You don’t need to be an expert to know these products weren’t successful.
